In Africa’s largest-ever clinical trial, the vaccine was only 30% effective. But in the dumbed-down world of vaccines, that won’t stop this lemon. Glaxo (the vaccine’s manufacturer) says they won’t give up and the head of Bill Gates’ Vaccine Boondoggle Organization is going for booster shots.

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Humanity is a species endangered by its beliefs, and most of all, its religious illusion of superiority.. ~ John Lamb Lash

Well, I sure hope they continue to work on a vaccine. Malaria kills almost 700,000 people a year, and 90% of them are children under the age of 5. And those stats are from 2010, and represent an improvement over previous rates due to sanitation and mosquito control measures. Data from WHO.

Mother of two living in UK. Daughter (2007) born in USA, son (2010) born here. I'm pro natural birth, midwife care, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, baby wearing and a keen advocate of cloth diapering. I'm a full time working research scientist (physical sciences). Vaccines save lives.

The Evolutionary Consequences of Blood-Stage Vaccination on the Rodent Malaria Plasmodium chabaudi

'Vaccination can drive the evolution of pathogens. Most obviously, molecules targeted by vaccine-induced immunity can change. Such evolution makes vaccines less effective. A different possibility is that more virulent pathogens are favored in vaccinated hosts. In that case, vaccination would create pathogens that cause more harm to unvaccinated individuals.'